Did the Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis?

anchovies said:
"Copy and paste" wrong once again, shocking; "Ousting Marttis at this time, and in this way, seems wrong for several reasons:" "TIMING: If Mattis leaves in March, as now appears likely, that means there will be a new person running CENTCOM just as the confrontation season with Iran begins to heat up again." "CIVIL-MILITARY SIGNALS: The message the Obama Administration is sending, intentionally or not, is that it doesn’t like tough, smart, skeptical generals who speak candidly to their civilian superiors. In fact, that is exactly what it (and every administration) should want. Had we had more back in 2003, we might not have made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq." "SERVICE RELATIONS: The Obamites might not recognize it, but they now have dissed the two Marine generals who are culture heroes in today’s Corps: Mattis and Anthony Zinni. The Marines have long memories. I know some who are still mad at the Navy for steaming away from the Marines left on Guadalcanal. Mattis made famous in Iraq the phrase, “No better friend, no worse enemy.” The Obama White House should keep that in mind."
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Like I said, anchovies, where is the liberal media outrage?
 
volsrock said:
Defense secretaries come and go. President Obama had four of them in eight years, who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving.


https://www.americanthinker.com/art...dia_care_when_obama_fired_general_mattis.html



Media spin on obama - everything he did was cool and legal and actively defended him on everything he did

media spin on Trump - everything he does or wants to do is illegal, evil and actively attacks everything he does
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play the Obama game all you want trump is still a fuck up.
 
volsrock said:
Defense secretaries come and go. President Obama had four of them in eight years, who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving.


https://www.americanthinker.com/art...dia_care_when_obama_fired_general_mattis.html



Media spin on obama - everything he did was cool and legal and actively defended him on everything he did

media spin on Trump - everything he does or wants to do is illegal, evil and actively attacks everything he does
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Does anyone even remember Obama firing Mattis lol?
 
Legion said:
I suspect that anchovies had to Google it, and he still can't come up with any liberal media outrage over it, lol.
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Corporate state media machine; half a dozen major multinational corporations ARE your media. No wonder this shyte is not taken seriously.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
Wasn't that the point of the thread; a partisanshithead circle jurk bitching about what "libs" did or did not do enough of for "conservatives"?
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The subtext to the OP is media bias.

It’s real, pervasive and has 1000x the effect on the electorate the Russians ever had with their FB memes. They can only dream of it, in fact.
 
volsrock said:
Defense secretaries come and go. President Obama had four of them in eight years, who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving.


https://www.americanthinker.com/art...dia_care_when_obama_fired_general_mattis.html



Media spin on obama - everything he did was cool and legal and actively defended him on everything he did

media spin on Trump - everything he does or wants to do is illegal, evil and actively attacks everything he does
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hey dummy Mattis wasn't fired, he quit

sober up
 
Darth Beto Omar said:
The subtext to the OP is media bias.

It’s real, pervasive and has 1000x the effect on the electorate the Russians ever had with their FB memes. They can only dream of it, in fact.
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Yes, your media is a corporate state enterprise, controlled/owned by half a dozen multinational corporations with their own agenda; ratings, shareholder returns. All else is secondary at best.
 
Althea said:
And....Mattis wasn't fired by trump. Why does the OP always feel he/she has to try so hard?
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True.. Matthis QUIT.. but now Trump is so pissed he's pushing him out immediately instead allowing him to resign and leave in two months.
 
kudzu said:
True.. Matthis QUIT.. but now Trump is so pissed he's pushing him out immediately instead allowing him to resign and leave in two months.
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We signed two pieces of major legislation this week, Criminal Justice Reform and the Farm Bill. These are two Big Deals, but all the Fake News Media wants to talk about is “the mistake” of bringing our young people back home from the Never Ending Wars. It all began 19 years ago! [DJT on Twitter]
 
Darth Beto Omar said:
We signed two pieces of major legislation this week, Criminal Justice Reform and the Farm Bill. These are two Big Deals, but all the Fake News Media wants to talk about is “the mistake” of bringing our young people back home from the Never Ending Wars. It all began 19 years ago! [DJT on Twitter]
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Depend on Trump to brag and cast aspersions on everyone else.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/dec/12/house-passes-farm-bill-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/

The bill, costing $867 billion over 10 years, reauthorizes agriculture and conservation programs, funds trade programs, expands support for struggling dairy farmers and legalizes the cultivation of industrial hemp. The House vote was 369-47.

Congress traditionally enacts a comprehensive farm bill every five years, setting federal agricultural and food policy for another five-year period. While farm bills include safety net programs for farmers, nutrition programs – including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – account for most of the spending.

The measure previously had stalled as Republicans sought to add work requirements for nearly 40 million low-income Americans to qualify for food stamps.

The previous version would have required all able-bodied adults ages 18 to 59 to work at least 20 hours a week or get training to qualify for food stamps under SNAP.

McMorris Rodgers said she supported the additional work requirements, but voted Wednesday to support the compromise version without them.

“I did support those provisions,” she said. “We’ll continue to work on them. But it was most important to provide the certainty that farm bill provides our farmers.”

Trump and conservatives had pushed to create the new work requirements, but the Senate rejected the idea.

McMorris Rodgers said the farm bill provided much of what she had hoped for following discussions with Eastern Washington farmers.

“The priorities were crop insurance, making sure that our farmers have that safety net when it’s not a good year, and the market access program,” she said. “We export a large, large portion of what we grow in Eastern Washington and opening markets is extremely important.”

Before her re-election in November, McMorris Rodgers invited Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to Spokane. On Aug. 9, she also hosted outgoing House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas.

At the time, Conaway said in Spokane that he had hoped to have the farm bill passed by Sept. 30. But the negotiations over the proposed changes to SNAP delayed the bill’s passage until Wednesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 
kudzu said:
Depend on Trump to brag and cast aspersions on everyone else.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/dec/12/house-passes-farm-bill-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/

The bill, costing $867 billion over 10 years, reauthorizes agriculture and conservation programs, funds trade programs, expands support for struggling dairy farmers and legalizes the cultivation of industrial hemp. The House vote was 369-47.

Congress traditionally enacts a comprehensive farm bill every five years, setting federal agricultural and food policy for another five-year period. While farm bills include safety net programs for farmers, nutrition programs – including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – account for most of the spending.

The measure previously had stalled as Republicans sought to add work requirements for nearly 40 million low-income Americans to qualify for food stamps.

The previous version would have required all able-bodied adults ages 18 to 59 to work at least 20 hours a week or get training to qualify for food stamps under SNAP.

McMorris Rodgers said she supported the additional work requirements, but voted Wednesday to support the compromise version without them.

“I did support those provisions,” she said. “We’ll continue to work on them. But it was most important to provide the certainty that farm bill provides our farmers.”

Trump and conservatives had pushed to create the new work requirements, but the Senate rejected the idea.

McMorris Rodgers said the farm bill provided much of what she had hoped for following discussions with Eastern Washington farmers.

“The priorities were crop insurance, making sure that our farmers have that safety net when it’s not a good year, and the market access program,” she said. “We export a large, large portion of what we grow in Eastern Washington and opening markets is extremely important.”

Before her re-election in November, McMorris Rodgers invited Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to Spokane. On Aug. 9, she also hosted outgoing House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas.

At the time, Conaway said in Spokane that he had hoped to have the farm bill passed by Sept. 30. But the negotiations over the proposed changes to SNAP delayed the bill’s passage until Wednesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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How many historic bills were passed by Obama—that were overshadowed by someone leaving?

I can’t think of a single one.
 
Darth Beto Omar said:
We signed two pieces of major legislation this week, Criminal Justice Reform and the Farm Bill. These are two Big Deals, but all the Fake News Media wants to talk about is “the mistake” of bringing our young people back home from the Never Ending Wars. It all began 19 years ago! [DJT on Twitter]
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this you Vlad?
 
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